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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia, like YouTube and Facebook, is a giant in the world of Web 2.0.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model.